Comments on: Forget the Mile-High Club — Who's in the 50,000 Servers Club?

By: Structure 09: Akamai’s CEO Explains Why the Middle of the Net Is Such a Drag | Design Website

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:20:59 +0000

[...] the 11-year-old content-distribution kingpin Akamai, which manages nearly 50,000 servers and optimizes the world’s overtaxed web services, might be a high-profile job for some. For [...]

By: Structure 09: Akamai’s CEO Explains Why the Middle of the Net Is Such a Drag

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:50:07 +0000

[...] AM PT | 0 comments Running the 11-year-old content-distribution kingpin Akamai, which manages nearly 50,000 servers and optimizes the world’s over-taxed web services, might be a high profile job for some. For [...]

By: Tweeks

Tweeks — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:52:02 +0000

Why count boxes or procs or proc-cores? You either count OS instances… either within VMs/chroots or on dedicated hardware like physical boxes, blades, etc. . The OS is where the config complexity lies. Now in the vhost side of things (shared web resources), I think that’s where you have to count physical boxes, because vhost sites & physical servers are apples and oranges.

Tweeks

By: מועדון ה-50,000 | Newsgeek

מועדון ה-50,000 | Newsgeek — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:10:11 +0000

[...] לצריכת האנרגיה האדירה שצורכת כמות כזאת של שרתים, נקודה מעניינת שהעלתה סטייסי היגנבוטום מהבלוג הטכנולוגי GigaOM לדיון היא יכולת הניהול והתחזוקה [...]

By: Dell Builds a VIA-Powered Server to Cut Power Costs

Dell Builds a VIA-Powered Server to Cut Power Costs — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:24:45 +0000

[...] through its Data Center Solutions Group. That group builds custom servers for customers buying more than 2,000 machines at a time. Those customers are generally operating mega-data centers with tens of thousands of servers and as [...]

By: Kanya

Kanya — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:33:09 +0000

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for not making me feel like TOO much like a perv. =)

By: JD

JD — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:11:29 +0000

I agree. What a let down.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:37:29 +0000

Good point. I count boxes, rather than processors. But from a power efficiency and managment perspective, processors and VMs might be better metrics.

By: Shai Berger

Shai Berger — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:06:39 +0000

How do you count servers? Does a box with 4 processors count as 1 or 4? What about a blade server with 10 motherboards in it. And then there’s the whole issue of server virtualization. Is “server count” really a useful metric?

By: petieg

petieg — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:59:04 +0000

… and here i thought you were talking about sex in the server room… or who had sex w/ the most servers around…!! bad analogy i suppose… ;-)

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:53:26 +0000

Satish, we’re just as curious as you are and will let you know the moment we do.

By: satish

satish — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:05:54 +0000

But why the Google is down since this morning? :-(